SergeantCC4 Posted January 27, 2014 Share Posted January 27, 2014 Hey guys I've recently acquired a IBM M1015 and flashed it to LSI 9211-IT Mode. The flash went properly and the controller works correctly. The issue I've been running into is that I cannot load the operating system. The IBM controller boots correctly and the motherboard has no issues at POST. After POST the server hangs at the "Loading Operating System" message. My flash drive is set to the top of the boot priority in my BIOS. If I remove the cable from the controller (thereby disconnecting all hard drives from the controller) the server boots normally (obviously missing disks.) The IBM controller has one hard drive connected to it, the drive is the parity drive for the system. Thanks for the help. Link to comment
joelones Posted January 28, 2014 Share Posted January 28, 2014 Not sure if this is applicable to you or not. I once had a gigabyte motherboard that would exhibit the same behaviour (hanged at the "Loading Operating System" message) and would not boot from the USB. It turned out that the motherboard did not like the USB flash key for some unknown reason. I swapped it out with another, I believe it was a kingston and it work. Link to comment
SergeantCC4 Posted January 28, 2014 Author Share Posted January 28, 2014 I do indeed have a gigabyte motherboard, but this is a new issue. The USB flash key has worked for ~2 years now with no known issues until this one. Link to comment
SergeantCC4 Posted January 28, 2014 Author Share Posted January 28, 2014 Edit: the flash key doesn't make sense either because it does the same thing when I boot the tower without the flash drive inserted, and it does not do the issue when i disconnect the SFF 8087 cable from the HBA. Link to comment
BobPhoenix Posted January 29, 2014 Share Posted January 29, 2014 Are you sure you have the correct cable from the M1015 to your drive? If you are going from M1015 directly to a SATA port on the HDD you will need a forward breakout cable. Never heard of this problem before when using a reverse breakout by mistake but you should verify that. Link to comment
SergeantCC4 Posted January 29, 2014 Author Share Posted January 29, 2014 It is indeed a forward breakout cable which goes from the sff 8087 port on the M1015 to the SATA connection on the hard drive. To confirm the part number for my breakout cable is: 8087-SATA7F-30-1M And when I uplug the 8087 cable from the PORT 0 point on the M1015 (while my system is powered down) then turn on the tower it boots normally into unRAID. However if I leave the cable connected it gets stuck at the "Loading Operating System" stage. Link to comment
SergeantCC4 Posted January 30, 2014 Author Share Posted January 30, 2014 Anyone else have any recommendations? This is a serious problem as I have to keep the side off of my case so i can access the cable every time i have to restart it (which recently is quite a lot)... Link to comment
dgaschk Posted January 31, 2014 Share Posted January 31, 2014 See here: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=12767.msg121128#msg121128 Is "Boot Support" disabled? Link to comment
Frank1940 Posted January 31, 2014 Share Posted January 31, 2014 I got an ASUS motherboard (used on my test bed) that will refuse to boot from a USB key if I put a new HD that is formatted with NTFS. I use an F8 option to bring up a boot menu which will allow me to select the USB key as the boot device. Once the drive has been precleared, the BIOS will boot from the key. I am not sure why ASUS has decided to set things up this way. (I seem to recall that I can go into the BIOS before the boot sequence starts and reset the BIOS to boot first from the USB key but it is quicker to use the F8 procedure.) Link to comment
SergeantCC4 Posted January 31, 2014 Author Share Posted January 31, 2014 dgaschk I followed the instructions to disable "boot support" but that option simply is not there on my firmware version. I'm running v7.29.00.00 where the link you supplies the OP is using v7.21.00.00. I've heard also that flashing back to previous versions can cause issues on some electronics. Frank. It did indeed switch the boot priority on my motherboard (gigabyte mobo, and yes I think it's stupid as well), but I changed it back to my usb flash key and it still doesn't work. Link to comment
SergeantCC4 Posted February 1, 2014 Author Share Posted February 1, 2014 Anyone have any other recommendations? Anyone have an idea if the most recent firmware has this problem fixed? Edit: Solved. I followed the instructions on this site: http://www.servethehome.com/ibm-serveraid-m1015-part-4/ This was the site I used the first time to flash the M1015. However I couldn't get to the menu which had the "Boot Support" option (FW v7.29.00.00). I followed the same instructions but replaced the 2118it.bin and mptsas2.rom with the most recent firmware from the LSI site: http://www.lsi.com/products/host-bus-adapters/pages/lsi-sas-9211-8i.aspx#tab/tab4 That brought me to v7.35.1 and allowed me to change the "Boot Support" option to disabled and now everything boots normally!! Link to comment
starcat Posted February 5, 2014 Share Posted February 5, 2014 SergeantCC4 thanks for your report! I am going to flash some M1015 to P18.. let see if I will have the same boot issue with the Supermicro board I will be using. Link to comment
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